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Universities, ‘Left Behind Places’ and the Making of a Moral Crisis

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Britain's universities face an acute financial and moral crisis. Once celebrated as engines of the knowledge economy and social mobility, they are now viewed increasingly with suspicion—criticised as elitist, self‐serving and detached from public needs.
Sarah Chaytor, John Tomaney
wiley   +1 more source

Designing and Assessment of Apprenticeship Comprehensive Program for Health Information Technology Students [PDF]

open access: yesمجله ایرانی آموزش در علوم پزشکی, 2017
Introduction: The success of universities in training efficient human resources requires expansion of the range of education and gaining experience of real work environment.
Peyman Rezaei   +2 more
doaj  

On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source

If‐Conditionals as Arguments in Nineteenth‐Century Women's Instructive Writing in English

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article seeks to analyse the if‐conditionals in a corpus of cookery recipes written by women, namely the Corpus of Women's Instructive Texts in English (1800–1899) (CoWITE19). These texts are original texts written by British and American women between 1800 and 1850.
Margarita‐Esther Sánchez‐Cuervo
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative performance of survey-weighted multinomial logit and probit models in analyzing apprenticeship choice data from Ghana

open access: yesScientific African
This study conducts a comparative analysis of Survey-weighted Multinomial Logit (SW-MNLR) and Probit (MNP) models to evaluate their effectiveness in capturing the complexities of apprenticeship dynamics in the Ghanaian context.
Gabriel Mwinkume   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact on Firms of ICT Skill-Supply Strategies: An Anglo-German Comparison [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper compares the supply of specialist ICT skills in Britain and Germany from higher education and from apprenticeship and assesses the relative impact on companies in the two countries.
Hilary Steedman   +2 more
core  

‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of technical vocational education and training and apprenticeship systems: a qualitative analysis in Benin’s labour market

open access: yesDiscover Education
Background In Benin, Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Apprenticeship Programs play a prominent role in the education system.
Guy Sourou Nouatin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
wiley   +1 more source

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

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